Black Screen on Steam Version after playing once already

[Shikari19]

Hi there, I purchased PZ yesterday, have played it now on 3 different computers, but have now come to a dilemma. I was playing a save on my Windows 7 Premium computer, when I knew of my impending death, so I paused the game and clicked "Exit" thinking it'd go back to the main menu. Well I was wrong and it closed my window for it.

 

I tried loading it back up on the normal "Play Project Zomboid" option instead of the "Safe/Compatibility Mode" option on Steam, and I get nothing. It's just a black screen now.

 

I tried loading it up on the "Safe/Compatibility Mode" instead and I get the same black screen, just with the music playing in the background. 

 

Ii get no error messages or anything in the black box thing that comes up when you load the game, no text in it or anything.

 

Any help? Please?

[Kirrus]

Hey,

First thing to try is making sure your video drivers are up-to-date

[Shikari19]

Hey,

First thing to try is making sure your video drivers are up-to-date

How do I go about doing this? Thanks for the reply by the way.

[Thebig44]

Shikari19 After dieing it's normal you might sometimes experience the window closing or going blackscreen, the devs have said they are working on a "way" to lighten up the framerates.

[RoboMat]

Ii get no error messages or anything in the black box thing that comes up when you load the game, no text in it or anything.

 

Any help? Please?

Go to your local content of PZ and look for error.log and output.log and post the contents here (in

and

 tags please).

[EnigmaGrey]

It may be necessary to disable the Steam overlay by right clicking on Project Zomboid in the Steam Library and selecting properties. There, you'll see an option to disable the Steam In-Game Communtity. Uncheck it.

[shamasian1111]

Theres a solution that's always worked for me. And I get the same problem. But with the UI on display ( though it takes awhile for that to load also)

 

Solution:

Move around alittle bit , and keep moving & stopping. It just takes a few more seconds - minuets for the surroundings to load.

 

Works every time for me  

 

Good luck!